A big crash sounded in the Fifth Street area as a huge dead tree just off the intersection of Fifth and Carson fell last night. City crews were on the job quickly to remove the debris and clear the roadway, but the main body of the tree was still observable on Monday morning.

Pam Lopez, who lives at the intersection of Fourth and Belleview, was playing records in her backyard with her husband, Tony, when a whirling burst of wind cut across the yard diagonally from north east to southwest, lifting the phonograph into the air. Her husband caught it. Then, seconds later, they heard a loud crash. Pam saw the tree down Monday morning.

Going along Fifth Street to the site of the downed tree, the photographer stopped at a house on Fourth and Belleview, where Don McDonald, helped by granddaughter Destiny Urioste, was loading branches from his tree into the back of a pickup truck. He told about the tree on the next street. "It was across the street last night," he said. "I was going to have my tree trimmed, but the wind did it for me."

Lopez observed there are at least two more large dead trees in the general vicinity of the tree which came down Sunday night.

Sunday's storm brought high winds and steady rain. Other areas of the state experienced similar weather, with at least two tornadoes touching down.